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A study by María Dolores Bañón, professor at the University of Valencia (UV), concludes that, in the television treatment of information, private channels use the treatment of MENA more than public ones to refer to unaccompanied foreign minors.

Mètode magazine publishes a report on the research developed at the Universitat de València on the scientific names dedicated to female researchers. Cytophaga johnsonae. This is the name of the bacterium named after Delia E. Johnson, American microbiologist and the first woman in the history of microbiology to name an organism, one hundred and twenty-five years after a man did so.

The US video-on-demand company with the largest number of Spanish films and series in its catalogue is Prime Video (751 titles), followed by Netflix (575), HBO Max (196), Disney+ (116) and Apple TV+ (3). This data comes from a report carried out by researchers at the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) that analyses the availability and prominence of Spanish audiovisual works, in 2023, in these five US subscription video on demand (SVOD) services operating in Spain.

Family businesses have stronger incentives to avoid practices such as workforce reductions, which can damage their emotional attachment and negatively affect their reputation and image in the community. This is one of the conclusions of an international research project, in which the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has participated, which explores whether family-controlled firms offer greater job security compared to non-family firms.

A study led by the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM) has revealed how the intensification of agriculture is drastically altering the composition and functional diversity of bird communities in cereal agroecosystems in Europe. The research, which analyzes the impact at field and landscape level, reveals a predominance of smaller and shorter-lived bird species, with a reduction in the diversity of parental investment strategies and an increase in generalist species.

US researchers launch PEPAdb (Prehistoric Europe's Personal Adornment database), an online and accessible tool with data on personal adornment items in recent prehistory. After decades of data collection, the US Quantitative Archaeology and Archaeological Science research group has carried out the configuration and deployment of a website with data on personal adornment in recent Prehistory on an intercontinental scale: PEPAdb.

Research from the University of Valencia describes a new mechanism to control cell division The Cell Cycle Regulation in Eukaryotes research group at the University of Valencia (UV) has discovered a new way to control cell division, a key process to understand diseases such as cancer, in which cell proliferation loses the correct operation of its control and braking mechanisms.

The ATLAS collaboration at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) at CERN has made new measurements of the production rate of Higgs bosons at the energy of 13. TeV, a record value that the LHC accelerator has managed to achieve in its third period of operation known as Run 3. The results, published this week in the European Physical Journal C, have the direct participation of the IFIC researcher Salvador Martí García.

An article published in the journal Trends in Ecology & Evolution by the Desertification Research Centre (CIDE, UV-CSIC-GVA) and the ECOAQUA Institute (ULPGC) proposes for the first time a conceptual framework for the study of fire ecology in the marine environment. The work warns about the disturbances caused by forest fires in marine systems and raises the main ideas and questions to be resolved from this new study perspective.

The Institute of Corpuscular Physics (IFIC, UV-CSIC) is part of the team that has travelled to the city of Darmstadt to install the last modules of the CALIFA detector, a calorimeter that will be installed in R3B, one of the scientific collaborations in nuclear physics from the new international research centre FAIR.

A study by IDOCAL (Research Institute in Psychology of Human Resources, Organisational Development and Quality of Work Life) of the University of Valencia concludes that women have higher levels of performance and green behaviours in social economy organisations, especially in cooperatives.

Malaria continues to infect more than 200 million people a year, of which a part of them, mostly children, die from the disease. Over the years, methods have been developed against this disease, from simple but efficient mosquito nets to promising vaccines, however, a definitive solution has not yet been found, so research is still necessary.

A new study reveals that bacteria in the syphilis family were present in America at least a thousand years before the arrival of Christopher Columbus One of the greatest mysteries in the history of epidemics is whether or not syphilis was introduced into Europe after Columbus- first voyage to the Americas.

Research by the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) and the University of Santiago de Compostela (USC) that analyses how Spaniards kept themselves informed during the COVID-19 pandemic and their

Scientific research, in which a researcher from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M) has participated, has identified a bacteria that prevents the malaria parasite from completing its cycle inside mosquitoes. This advance, recently published in the journal Science, could provide an additional weapon against the spread of malaria in the world.

Researchers from the Autonomous University of Madrid (UAM), CIBERESP and IMDEA Alimentación have associated the Atlantic diet with a reduction in mortality in countries such as Spain, the Czech Republic, Poland and the United Kingdom. The results, published in the European Journal of Preventive Cardiology , open up new possibilities for the development of nutritional guidelines adapted to this diet in Europe.

Researchers from the Cavanilles Institute of the University of Valencia (UV) reveal in an article published in the journal Urban Science that the surface area of three beaches south of the port of València (Pinedo, El Saler and La Garrofera) has increased from 170 hectares of sand in the decade of the 90s to 43 in 2022.

A study shows great genetic differences of the European population in the Palaeolithic and Neolithic The University of Valencia (UV) participates in an international study published in Nature magazine and led by the University of Copenhaguen in which more than 1,600 ancient human genomes are analysed to shed unprecedented insights into the past human gene pools of western Eurasia (current Europe).